Police Reform Forces for Change

Author: Steve Savage
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199218646
Published In: September 2007
Format: Hardback , 264 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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- Looks at the topical subject of police reform against its historical backdrop and debates the future of this process
- Covers three decades of changes to policing and is structured thematically around the main driving forces for reform
- Key topics discussed include - system failure, public order polcing, international influences, economic issues, the performace culture, internal influences, and political agendas.
- Asks controversial questions such as "To what extent has policing enjoyed a privileged status and resisted change in the face of wider public sector reform?"
- Addresses a complex and ever-shifting subject in an engaging and accessible manner
This book focuses on the very topical subject of police reform in the UK. Currently, the police service is undergoing a time of significant change and reform as a result of the 'modernisation' agenda. Planned force re-structuring, the performance culture, recruitment and training issues are just a few elements of this extensive reform process. There is therefore a need for a text which looks at this current agenda for reform against its historical backdrop and debates the long term future of this process. The book spans three decades and is structured thematically around the main driving forces for reform, looking at the policy process and its related contexts. Key topics covered include system failure (when things go wrong), public order policing, international influences, economic issues and value for money, internal influences and political issues. The book adresses a complex and ever-shifting subject in an accessible manner.

Readership: The primary markets are undergraduate and postgraduate police, criminal justice studies, law, politics and public policy/policy analysis students and academics. Also middle and senior management police professionals and members of police authorities, the Police Standards Unit and the Home Office. There will be a secondary market amongst politicians and their advisors
Contents:

Introduction - Police Reform: Contextual Drivers

1. When Things Go Wrong: System Failure and Police Reform

2. Import Duties: Police Reform and Influences from Abroad

3. Policing as a Performing Art? - Value for Money,and Police Reform

4. Forces From Within: Internal Drivers on Police Reform

5. The Politics of Policing and the Politics of Police Reform: Too Hot to handle or Too Hot to Leave Alone?

Conclusion - Police Reform and Policing Policy: Incrementalism, mixed parentage, and cycles. ;
Stephen Savage, Professor of Criminology and Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth.